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From ‘Frankenstein’ to ‘Dracula,’ exploring the dark world of death and the undead offers a reminder of our mortality

  • Written by Molly Ryder Granatino, Teaching Assistant Professor, English department, University of Tennessee
From ‘Frankenstein’ to ‘Dracula,’ exploring the dark world of death and the undead offers a reminder of our mortalityStudents consider their own mortality in a literature course on death and dying. iStock/Getty Images Plus

Spooky decorations of ghosts and skeletons will soon be returning to people’s doorsteps ahead of Halloween – but year-round, I am thinking about literary representations of death and dying.

I am not alone. For centuries, death has...

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